I was looking at the Wordle of Obama's inauguration speech last week and marvelling at how a speech could show so much additional information when laid out in that format. It got me thinking about how other types of content could be enhanced in similar way. Today everything came together in one brainwave and hence I can present to you the genius concept of Foodle.
Foodle is like Wordle in that it it would contain the content of a written passage, in this case the ingredients list of a recipe, and represent it in a volume based graph. However whereas on Wordle the size of words are determined by the frequency of their use, in Foodle text size would be determined by the quantities of each ingredient used in the recipe.
I've created an example screenshot of what the finished application would look like if it was fed the recipe for a perfect meal of beans on toast.
(note from Dom - There will be no disputing of this recipe, it's tried and tested) 
The question is however if anyone knows how I can make this dream a reality? I obviously want to do the bare minimum of work but since this is one of my better ideas of late (how depressing) I'd do some graft.
Hints, tips and tutorials from anyone with a hint of coding nous would be much appreciated. Cheers.
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Foodle - a culinary social media mash-up
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3 comments:
Your Obama wordle link is broken.
I love this idea. Offer it to sainsburys, tesco et al as an alternative to the traffic light system too... the larger the word FAT across the product the wiser it is to avoid.
Although not sure cheese would appeal so much with a label which essentially just says:
FAT PROTEIN
Hmmmm
Great idea, the opportunities are literally endless! I'm thinking I might suggest it to Wordle as an add on as it wouldn't take too much tweaking of their current coding.
That isn't a recipe, that's your diet. ZING!
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